This version of CURRICULUM VITAE was last updated on 2024.09.14.

Professional Experience

• 2022 (October): Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK. Ongoing
• 2024 (July): Göttingen University, Germany. Duration: 3 months.
  Visitor Research Fellow Alexander von Humboldt: Research on algorithms on sequences.
• 2019 (March): Akita University, Japan. Duration: 5 weeks.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on combinatorics on words.
• 2016 (July): Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK. Ongoing
• 2016 (January): Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK. Duration: 6 months.
  Newton International Fellow: Big Data: New Algorithmical Challenges.
  Newton International Fellowship funding from the British Academy and the Royal Society.
• 2014 (October): Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK. Duration: 12 months.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on algorithms on faulty sequences.
  Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience (P.R.I.M.E.) funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within a programme co-financed by the Marie Curie Programme of the European Commission.
• 2013 (June): Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Germany. Duration: 33 months.
  Research Fellow: Research on algorithms and combinatorics of sequences
  DFG grant 582014 and P.R.I.M.E. funding.
• 2013 (February): LIAFA Research Group, CNRS and Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France. Duration: 1 week.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on plactic monoids.
• 2012 (November): Turku University, Turku, Finland. Duration: 1 week.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on k-abelian avoidability.
  Invitation from Dr. Aleksi Saarela.
• 2011 (December): Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan. Duration: 6 weeks.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on subword inequalities and palindomes completion.
  Invitation from Dr. Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas on JSPS grant no. P10827.
• 2011 (May): Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guerike-University of Magdeburg, Germany. Duration: 24 months.
  Research Fellow: Research on languages of partial words.
  Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2010 (August): Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. Duration: 4 months.
  Research Fellow in a Rovira i Virgili University project, ref: 1355 U07 E30 N-2010PFR-URV-B2-02
• 2010 (March): LIAFA Research Group, CNRS and Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France. Duration: 3 months.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on trace monoids and Young tableaux.
  Mobility Fellowship for obtaining an European PhD Title from the Spanish Ministery of Education
• 2009 (September): Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. Duration: 12 months.
  Research Fellow in a Rovira i Virgili University project, ref: 1323 U07 E30 N-2008/InvAct/Bel, G./BJ01
• 2009 (June): University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Duration: 6 months.
  Research Assistant and Research Fellow: Research on full and partial words.
  Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–0754154.
• 2009 (February): LIAFA Research Group, CNRS and Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France. Duration: 3 weeks.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on contextual trace monoids.
  Mobility grant under the AutoMathA: from Mathematics to Applications programme funded by the European Science Foundation.
• 2008 (June): University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Duration: 6 months.
  Research Assistant and Research Fellow: Research on partial words.
  Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–0754154.
• 2007 (September): University of Debrecen, Hungary. Duration: 5 weeks.
  Visitor Research Fellow: Research on primitive words.
  Invitation from Prof. Dr. Pál Dömösi.
• 2007 (May): University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Duration: 3 months.
  Research Assistant: Research on partial words.
  Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–0452020.
• 2005 (February): University of Bristol, UK. Duration: 6 months.
  One semester of MS studies under the Erasmus mobility programme.

Education

• 2006-2010: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
  PhD in Combinatorics on Words (Thesis: Repetitions in Partial Words, supervisor Francine Blanchet-Sadri)
• 2006-2008: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
  Master of Advanced Studies (Thesis: Avoidability in Partial Words, supervisor Francine Blanchet-Sadri).
• 2004-2006: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
  MS in Theoretical Computer Science (Thesis: A JAVA interpretor for interactive programs with registers and voice, supervisor Gheorghe Stefanescu)
• 2000-2004: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
  BS in Computer Science (Graduation paper: Oracle Database Tuning, supervisor George Ungureanu).
• 1996-2000: High School, National College Nicu Gane Falticeni, Romania.

Languages

Romanian:	native speaker
English:	fluent
Spanish:	good
German:	good (B2 level)
French:	basic